The greatest opportunity in taking part in Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is about NOT focusing on everyone starting a business.

Instead, it is about everyone exploring the personal, people and thinking skills that form the entrepreneurial mind-set, putting in place the foundations for starting something.

Businesses get started because someone sees a need, has an idea to meet that need and takes the risk on turning that idea into reality. Social change happens for the same reasons, often in the same way.

During GEW, it is possible to create an inclusive space for every young person to get involved, simply by focusing on them having ideas.

Where is the wellbeing value in that?

When you explore a need or challenge, you open up empathy within people – the starting point of creating solutions.

By playing with ideas, you are connecting to each person’s imagination and creativity, so that they draw on all kinds of insights and experiences – their voice counts.

If we want our young people to be open to learning, we have to make safe spaces for them to bring their unique creativity to the table, so that they build up their resilience, so that they know it’s okay not to know the answer, so that they know how to get back up after failure and stay courageous in the face of the ‘slicers and dicers.’

Wellbeing comes from having a sense of purpose, a knowing that you can contribute to making something better by being all that you are.

Getting involved in GEW like this make it inclusive not competitive; a space that cultivates the conditions for our young people to move past cynicism and know how to start being optimistic agents of change.